.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 262 112
Rank change year-on-year -55 -150 +35
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 372 509 1,750
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.20% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.47% 5.40% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 341 379 1,688
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,799 9,420 15,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.00% 22.16% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,209 5,935 12,924
10th Percentile £37,450 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,225 £61,000
% change year-on-year -1.85% +8.57% -9.63%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -38 107 £55,000 +8.08% 49
London -16 101 £80,000 +6.67% 53
North West -18 66 £55,000 - 30
South East -44 54 £60,000 +14.29% 53
Midlands -19 49 £65,000 +23.81% 21
East Midlands -12 39 £65,000 +23.81% 12
South West +3 38 £55,000 -24.14% 21
Yorkshire -48 23 £40,000 -20.00% 15
North East -7 18 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England -7 17 £85,000 +70.00% 23
West Midlands -19 10 £45,000 -14.29% 9
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.61%) IIS
2 2 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Kentico
3 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 220 (59.14%) Azure
2 85 (22.85%) AWS
3 56 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (12.63%) Serverless
5 37 (9.95%) SaaS
6 28 (7.53%) GitHub
7 21 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.11%) Azure Functions
8 19 (5.11%) Power Platform
9 18 (4.84%) Azure AKS
10 16 (4.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.76%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.76%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.49%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.27%) AMQP
2 1 (0.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (40.05%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 30 (8.06%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.30%) Power BI
7 14 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.49%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.49%) MySQL
9 11 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.08%) Redis
11 3 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.27%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 50 (13.44%) Git
2 9 (2.42%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.81%) JIRA
5 3 (0.81%) Vite
5 3 (0.81%) webpack
6 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.54%) MSTest
6 2 (0.54%) NUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.27%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (12.37%) Finance
2 38 (10.22%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.57%) Law
4 13 (3.49%) Games
4 13 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.42%) Front Office
7 8 (2.15%) Banking
8 7 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.88%) Legal
9 4 (1.08%) Retail
10 3 (0.81%) Advertising
10 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.81%) Marketing
10 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.54%) Back Office
11 2 (0.54%) Local Government
11 2 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (69.35%) Developer
2 127 (34.14%) .NET Developer
3 98 (26.34%) Senior
4 86 (23.12%) Software Developer
5 69 (18.55%) C# Developer
6 60 (16.13%) Senior Developer
7 51 (13.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (13.17%) Software Engineer
9 48 (12.90%) Lead
10 38 (10.22%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (7.26%) .NET Software Engineer
12 26 (6.99%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 25 (6.72%) Lead Developer
14 24 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (6.18%) Senior Software Developer
16 21 (5.65%) React Developer
16 21 (5.65%) Senior .NET Developer
17 20 (5.38%) Senior C# Developer
18 19 (5.11%) .NET Software Developer
18 19 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (100.00%) .NET
2 125 (33.60%) ASP.NET
3 100 (26.88%) React
4 87 (23.39%) .NET Framework
5 58 (15.59%) AngularJS
6 56 (15.05%) RESTful
7 52 (13.98%) Entity Framework
8 51 (13.71%) HTML
9 48 (12.90%) Blazor
9 48 (12.90%) CSS
10 39 (10.48%) ASP.NET Core
11 36 (9.68%) ASP.NET MVC
12 32 (8.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 31 (8.33%) Vue
14 28 (7.53%) REST
15 26 (6.99%) Node.js
16 20 (5.38%) HTML5
17 13 (3.49%) AWS CDK
17 13 (3.49%) CSS3
17 13 (3.49%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 11 (2.96%) AI Agents
4 11 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.15%) Sports Betting
6 6 (1.61%) 3D Graphics
6 6 (1.61%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.34%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.08%) Digital TV
8 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.54%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.69%) VMS
2 4 (1.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (36.02%) Agile
2 133 (35.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 107 (28.76%) CI/CD
4 106 (28.49%) Software Engineering
5 90 (24.19%) Microservices
6 89 (23.92%) DevOps
7 70 (18.82%) MVC
8 60 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 54 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (12.37%) SDLC
11 41 (11.02%) Clean Code
12 38 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 31 (8.33%) OO
14 30 (8.06%) Collaborative Culture
14 30 (8.06%) Scrum
15 27 (7.26%) AI
15 27 (7.26%) Analytics
16 26 (6.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 318 (85.48%) C#
2 149 (40.05%) SQL
3 112 (30.11%) JavaScript
4 50 (13.44%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.18%) Python
6 16 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (2.42%) Rust
9 8 (2.15%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.08%) Bash
10 4 (1.08%) Bicep
11 3 (0.81%) Erlang
11 3 (0.81%) Java
11 3 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (8.06%) Degree
2 14 (3.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.96%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.42%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.34%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.03%) QA
2 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.08%) WCAG
3 2 (0.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (22.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 101 (27.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.34%) Google
3 3 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (0.81%) Facebook
3 3 (0.81%) YouTube
4 2 (0.54%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.54%) Databricks
4 2 (0.54%) Foundry
4 2 (0.54%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.27%) IBM
5 1 (0.27%) Okta
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce